LING 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Dog Bite, Binoculars, Juvenile Court
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Sister to the head (thing that gives a phrase its name, e. g. a verb in a verb phrase) Sister to the phrase (rest of the phrase) I saw the man who was holding binoculars. 2 sisters reunited after 18 years at the checkout counter. Take your mother-in-law out back and shoot her. Your wife is hot let us take care of that. The cops chased the criminal with the fast car. Plausibility: the woman played with the baby in the green shirt. But contains a phrase that is temporarily ambiguous. Ambiguity persists briefly but is resolved by the end. More difficult cases lead you down a "garden path" While anna dressed the baby played in the room. The horse raced past the barn fell and broke a leg. Put the frog on the napkin on the table. Start such that initial interpretation will be wrong. Global ambiguity arises from two basic types of ambiguity.
